Hard Drive Maintenance
Happy New Year to All.
Maintenance on hard drives is good to do at least once a month. Now is a good time to take the hard drive to some cleaning, disk checking and defragmenting along with a full scan at the end of the evening since a full virus scan can take hours. PC Virus Doctors would also recommend an additional scan with a good antispyware.
MAKE SURE ALL YOUR DATA IS BACKED UP!!!!!
Please read the above again. If you have an old drive and have not performed any of the maintenance or only the malware scans then one can just expect data loss...again...don't be surprised if your data even "disappears".
That being said here is a bulleted list of maintenance and scans for the hard drive. PC Virus Doctors recommends running this maintenance in the order given:
- Dump all the temp files from Windows, Internet Explorer and other browsers
- Run a quick virus scan and antispyware scan. (Previous recent posts have what is needed)
- Run a check disk (google for the term if you don't know how, more on this with next blog)
- Defragment
- Run a deep- full scan with an up-to-date antivirus
- Run a full or deep scan with an up-to-date antispyware
If you have any trouble you can call PC Virus Doctors' Dallas Computer Support at (214) 723-4335
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